www.euroslot-online.com MARKET REPORT SUPPLEMENT
At present, all amusement machine As usual, Sapar organizes 2 annual exhibitions: SIZE OF INDUSTRY (SUPPLIED BY SAPAR)
homologation is being carried out by the tax Enada-Rome in October and Enada Spring-Rimini
department subsidiary Sogei but this has led to a in March – the last one in cooperation with
• Number of amusement machines: 250,000
slowdown in the issuing of licences for amusements Rimini Trade Fair Organization, following the
• Machines per sites:
much to the frustration of manufacturers and agreement signed in 2005.
• Coffee shop, pub and restaurant: from 1 to 4
operators alike. Once again, the report released by The 21st edition of SAPAR’s ENADA SPRING
depending on surface available
AAMS paints a picture of the amusement market as International Amusement & Gaming Machine
• Betting shop: max 24 units
follows: “Mechanical and electronic machines for Show, was held from 18-21 March 2009. During
• Bingo hall: max 75 units
pure amusement are cranes, pushers and so-called the show’s four days, ENADA Spring was
• Arcades: the number of slots can doubling that of
redemption games and video games. The sector has attended by 25,545 trade visitors (a 1.5% rise on
other machines mx (e.g. 10 amusement machines
been steady for several years. There are 2008), of whom 2,810 were from abroad (+9%).
= max 20 slot machines)
approximately 215,000 machines installed with total The expo had a high international profile. As
• Total licensed granteed: 3,800
takings in 2005 of 774m Euros with revenue for the well as from Germany and Switzerland, the trade
• Cost of the various licences: free
State of 62m Euros.” fair also hosted buyers from the nations of the
• Revenue from Gaming: ¤ 2,500,000.00
It is hoped by some in the sector that the Balkan area. Many trade visitors also arrived
• Growth of industry: 19%
AAMS will expand its definition of amusement from Japan, Taiwan and India.
only machines to include products such as pinball
and bingo machines which currently sit in
between classifications. The same is true of
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ticket redemption which is still being removed
from site by confused policemen in some parts of
“This year Elmac is supplying three new important FECs in Italy with a
the country.
total of 70 redemption machines  and 3 Galileo Systems. So, therefore, I
Everyone in the industry hopes that the latest
think to have still a good market in Italy for redemption in FECs,
set of amendments will do the job that the Italian
parks,  bowling alleys, and seaside arcades.
government wants in raising revenue while
VLTs are coming: the government needs Euros 500 million for the
tightening controls over machine operation. If
construction of new houses in L’Aquila, after the earthquake. For this
this is the case, the industry can grow and
reason, it introduced  the VLT (already foreseen in a previous law).
manufacturers will finally be able to sell machines
More or less these are the rules : only the “concessionario di rete” can
in reasonable numbers and recoup the costs they
have them; each concessionario can ask for a number of VLTs up to 14% of
have already outlaid.
the total NewSlot (comma 6 and comma 6/A) that they already control.
The maximum bet will be ¤10 with a jackpot up to 50,000¤ and a
cycle of 5000000 games ; minimum payout 85% and 2% of coin in fixed
tax (this tax will increase up to 4% in 2013). It’s clear that the normal
operators of NewSlot are a bit afraid of these machines because NewSlot
pays 75% and tax is 13.4% of coin in.
As for Comma 6/A I, as an operator, have to find the money to convert
the remaining 50% of my NewSlot from comma 6 to comma 6/A before
15th December. This is a common problem of all the Italian operators.
In this period of crisis it’s a big problem to have the money from the
banks.”
SEPTEMBER 2009
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